Poll: Can I get a ruling on this?

[AnarchistFish]

Now, I know that there are plenty of cases in life where people don't make any sense, but would it be unreasonable to ask people to just try to do so on a forum? I'm not sure how you'd review that exactly, buuut a several-paragraph post deliberately dedicated towards not really making proper sense or making a point seems to be a waste of everybody's time.

What does the Escapist think?

Yay irony

I have no idea what you're on about

 

[SirPlindington]

The more nonsense the better. In fact, the more nonsense you use makes it more sensible to post as much nonsense as you like. TO clarify, more nonsense= more sense, or at least an air of sense. A sense of sense, if you will. A demeanor of sense. The more the merrier, as they say.

But really, I only see people post this sort of thing if it's in a nonsensical thread, and that's sort of the point, isn't it?

 

[Realitycrash]

Now, I know that there are plenty of cases in life where people don't make any sense, but would it be unreasonable to ask people to just try to do so on a forum? I'm not sure how you'd review that exactly, buuut a several-paragraph post deliberately dedicated towards not really making proper sense or making a point seems to be a waste of everybody's time.

What does the Escapist think?

I think that for someone who has been around as long as you and make a post about "making sense", it seems ironic that you would use a deliberately unclear topic-name. If you want to make sense, be clear about what you are trying to say. Having a very unclear topic-name for something you could have said very easily and very clear, does not make sense.
And oh, it's against the rules.

Sorry, just a major annoyance of mine that people won't stop doing.

As for writing a purposefully nonsensical post..Well..Not everyone is fluent in English, so they might not realize it is gibberish.

 

[FalloutJack]

Sorry but I did have to read that 3 times for it to make sense.

Some people like to ramble, some people are better at getting straight to the point. You can't expect everyone to adhere to a certain writing style just to give your brain a rest. =P

So, in the end, I guess I just don't make sense to other people. And yet, somehow the point has been made, especially since I wasn't trying to confuse anyone. Perhaps this is a good lesson in perspective, a classic case of Unreliable Narrator and Metaphorgotten.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I waffle with this post completely. People should have the pancakes to toast whatever the syrup they want on an internet bacon. It doesn't matter if makes butter or not. Sure, it would be orange juice if everyone's toast made perfect butter. But the logistics of making sure that all the toasts made butter is just too elaborate and coffee. Besides, it would probably sausage on lots of people's pancakes to eggs of speech.

So no...Toasts on an internet bacon should not all be required to make butter. I waffle with the very idea. People should have every pancake to, for example, replace random words in their toast with breakfast-related terms.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Yes. Making sense is great.

Anyway,

Unicorn fly under cheese sundaes on rock SATTELITES

Friday...

 

[ImperialSunlight]

DOUBLE POST >.<

 

[Torrasque]

I think I agree? But it might be that I disagree? I DON'T KNOW. AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Err can you be abit more clearly at what you're trying to say? If I read it right than I disagree?

Why do people take the time to make a huge wall of text and make it really confusing to read and make it so it may not even answer the person they were talking to.

Something like that.

Ohhhhh, I see.
In that case, I dislike that too. Whenever I make a thread or reply, I try to keep it as short as possible so it makes sense and doesn't fighten people away due to wall o text.

 

[Dags90]

I think I wish I could remember that guy who made a similar post, only he proclaimed himself God Emperor King of Syntax, Grammar, and Punctuation, and then proceeded to write something that made no fucking sense whatsoever because he was clearly just trying to use big words.

And why have we now got multiple choice captchas? The ONLY ones I will accept are the ones where we're asked to 'describe this brand', and I get to write 'shit' in a raucous display of wit.

My biggest gripe are people who go out of there way to title their threads like it's going to be published in a major journal. Your thread is not a "treatise" on Super Mario, and Nintendo isn't going to be publishing it.

 

[FalloutJack]

Mmmm... I love apples.

OT: So, I appreciate the humor involved in this thread and, in fact, SOME of the candor. You have actually been a reasonable help in this. Also, thanks for the Fallout appreciation.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

When a subconscious annihilation laughs like a man insane, a darkness obliterates. A half-hidden pit traded the terror behind a splendor. When a salty speech hibernates, a statue awakens. I watched in horror as the scout over the truck hesitantly assimilated the submarine! It took no abnormal egg to make me non-chalantly be captured and consumed by a recording about a myth, but the false tome was surly. It was the wedge from some surface, but now I had no choice but to accept the fact that the frustrating column was indeed accurately burly as well as completely unstable! Most people believe that a scream beyond the brain destroyed the truck, but the frozen bargain is much more resplendent. When the geological lover is righteous, a viper avoided contact with a table. If the servant beneath a torch derived perverse pleasure from the library, then a vista ruminates. When an ocean beyond an abyss breathes, a tape recorder of a model laughs like a man insane. An infected ooze hesitantly bumped accidentally into an ancestral truck. When an inferiority draws itself up, the green doorstep beams with almost furtive power. A mysterious servant feels the pit, because the mulch related to the transformation laughed in the face of an ancient brain. Most people believe that a mortician over an engine bumped accidentally into a pit, but the antiquarian nation is much more unspeakable. When the nearest delicacy is childlike, a stoic figure seldom peeked at the column. A book toward an organism hides, but a particle out of an abstraction hurled a cylindrical bulb at a hideous hole. I watched in horror as the surface about some abnormality eagerly often summoned the annihilation! Remembering the green organism of a ghoul, I prostated myself before the hole of the the note that stood before me. A transformation of the pit ruminates, and the clock near the myth traded the servant.


I have to say, the thread was mildly disappointing. I was hoping you needed some MTG Rules lawyering.

Okay, I'm done now.

OT: I usually don't have a problem understanding long rambling posts. The ones that I do have a hard time understanding usually involve reasoning that would be weird no matter how concisely it's worded, like that thread where the guy asked for a name to put to his sexuality, or your average Eternal Nothingness thread. Otherwise, while I'd prefer to see better worded text blocks, it doesn't really bother me. Just keep things coherent and we're good.

By the way, if anyone's interested, the block of text at the top of this post is a a story generated by the random HP Lovecraft story generator, entitled "A vapour." You can find the generator <link=http://www.darkicon.com/lovecraft.htm>here.